Plews Shadley Racher & Braun Names Partners

Indianapolis-based Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP has named Colin Connor and Sean Hirschten partners. Connor concentrates his practice in a variety of areas including environmental litigation, insurance coverage and health care. He has extensive experience with various types of insurance policies, including commercial general liability, first-party property, and pollution-liability policies. Connor works on high stakes cases with hundreds of millions of dollars at issue, as well as small individual claims. He serves as president of the board of directors of the Mapleton-Fall Creek Development Corp. and vice chair of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section.

Hirschten practices in areas including insurance coverage, complex litigation and environmental and business services. His insurance coverage cases have involved multi-million dollar international toxic torts and have dealt with policies ranging from CGL to underinsured motorists, fidelity, and crime. He has argued before numerous tribunals, including the Indiana Supreme Court.

Like all schools in Indiana, we were disheartened at the ILEARN results for school year 2018. We would like to raise several questions concerning this test as it relates to college and career readiness for our students. The annual Indiana Statewide Assessment (this year’s ILEARN) has been developed to evaluate college and career readiness at all levels tested. We are very troubled by our lack of understanding of what indicators in the test evaluate...

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Like all schools in Indiana, we were disheartened at the ILEARN results for school year 2018. We would like to raise several questions concerning this test as it relates to college and career readiness for our students. The annual Indiana Statewide Assessment (this year’s ILEARN) has been developed to evaluate college and career readiness at all levels tested. We are very troubled by our lack of understanding of what indicators in the test evaluate...

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